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Originally Posted by Jyqm
I ask not because I think a Fleetwood Mac concert isn't a great show - it is. But on any given tour, it's more or less exactly the same show every time. Doesn't that get boring? I think if I went to two identical shows within such a short span of time, it'd lose quite a bit of the magic.
So, for the folks who go to multiple Mac shows, what's the appeal? What keeps you coming back?
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I went to two shows on the SYW tour. There were a few reasons: they were within driving distance (one was a stretch, but doable,) one show was an outdoor venue, I had 3rd row seats for both but one of them I was able to go to the stage for the entire show and play guitar on Go Your Own Way. That made it very worth it.
I went to two TISL shows; one was within driving distance, the other I took a 3 hour flight. Someone scored a front row ticket for me, so I pretty much knew I would get to shake Stevie's hand. That made it very worth it.
Scoring seats in the first few rows is not easy, it takes extra planning, extra energy and in some cases extra money beyond the ticket cost. I probably would not do it again. I had my 15 minutes of front row fame. Lately I've been opting for "nosebleed" seats, mostly in venues where I know there's not a bad seat in the house. No camping in line, no sweating bullets at the last minute, no paying extra money to join clubs and no flood of disappointment afterwards if you don't get the brass ring. It's a lot cheaper and the music sounds just as good, if not better.
Overall, I think I'm pretty much done with multiple shows on the same tour. It IS a lot of money and while the band members are expanding their IRA accounts, mine is not. After shaking STevie's hand and playing Lindsey's guitar, I feel there is not much left after that... unless STevie started throwing pieces of her wardrobe into the audience.
Laura
PS: Even if they started mixing up the set lists, I'm not sure it would be enough for me to go to mulitple shows. With airfare and hotel, it becomes cost prohibitive for me being 12 years from retirement. As long as there are tapers, I would probably opt for buying an audience shot DVD of whatever shows I wanted.
Laura